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Friday, May 20 - 22, 2016

Friday, May 20 - 22, 2016
Event starts at 6:30 pm

Galvanize Seattle
111 S Jackson Street
Seattle,
WA
98104

Explore the future through the power of entrepreneurship

Startup Weekend is a 54-hour education event for technical and non-technical entrepreneurs who want to build a business experientially. Startup Weekend Seattle: Data Science Edition will help you take the first steps toward launching a startup that focuses on the rapidly growing world of data science.Everything including neural nets, machine learning, predictive analytics, natural language processing, artificial intelligence all involves data science, and we want you to spend the weekend building alongside the best and brightest.

By the end of the weekend, you'll learn more about the latest trends and practices in technology and entrepreneurship, and you might even be working on the next big thing!

Startup Weekend begins Friday night with pitches and continues Saturday with brainstorming, business model development, and prototype creation in collaboration with enthusiastic local industry experts and mentors. It culminates Sunday afternoon with demos and presentations in front of the industry's experts. For all event details, please visit seattle.up.co/events/8934.

Finished for the day. "You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here."

Sunday May 22nd

8:30 am

Doors Open, Breakfast Served

Venue opened, simple breakfast & coffee served

9:00 am

Sunday Orientation

Meet with facilitator to review final day's protocol

9:30 am

Presentation Prep

Writing up decks, scripts, code, designs to present

12:00 pm

Lunch

No check-in - grab and go

12:00 pm

Tech Check

Meet with AV station to test your product and slide deck.

12:00 pm

Pitch Practice

Final hours of worktime should be focused on perfecting your presentation

2:30 pm

HARD STOP - end of competition

Workspaces must be cleared, everyone migrates to presentation area

3:00 pm

Final Presentations

Closing out the ceremony strong

5:30 pm

Judging & Awards

Judges sequested, final remarks from facilitator

6:00 pm

Go Home!

After-party...?

Event Judges

Daniela Braga
Co-Founder, President, Chief Scientist

DefinedCrowd

Sean Green
Data Research Analyst

City of Seattle

Taylor Kieburtz
Strategy Director, Co-Founder of WINTR

Carole McCluskey
Chief Technology Officer

MOD Pizza

Ryan Orban
Executive VP of Strategy

Galvanize

Coaches and Mentors

Katie Chase
Head of Business Operations

8Stem

Allen Chen
CEO and Co-Founder

DataBlade

Jeremy Foster
Developer Platform Evangelist

Microsoft

Caitlin Goetze
Cohort Director

9 Mile Labs

Trent Hauck
Consultant

Data Engineering and Science

Joachim Hill-Grannec
Partner

LIFFFT

Saranya Karuppusamy
City Director

Women Who Code

Stephanie Kim
Developer Evangelist

Algorithmia

Thibaut Labarre
Software Development Manager at Amazon

Engineering Manager with a Darwinian approach to innovation and long time Startup Weekend participant and organizer. Over the past 4 and a half years at Amazon, Thibaut built Heartbeat, a tool that leverage Natural Language Processing to combine millions of data points from disparate sources like product reviews, customer contacts, and social media to provide this information to worldwide product teams. 4k users access the tool every month to meet operational cost reduction goals and drive product improvements. Heartbeat started as his internship project and is now developed by a team of 14 engineers.

Claire Lyles
Co-Founder, Front-End Developer

MyStride

Sean Ottey
Technical Evangelist

Rightside

Sandra Persing
Co-Executive Director

Women Who Code

Mehar Pratap Singh
CEO and Co-Founder

ProCogia

Vetri Vellore
CEO and Co-Founder

Chronus

Event Sponsors, and Partners

The Startup Weekend Seattle: Data Science team is grateful for the support of local community partners without whom this event would not be possible.
Learn how to become a sponsor here.

Signature Sponsors

A education company that blends technology, startups, mentors, capital, and community. Learn more about us at galvanize.com.

Platinum

Silver

Bronze Sponsorship

Organizing Team

RileyPetersen

KeirahDein

RebeccaSamuelson

DavidAbling

LeeNgo

MarionRousseau

Facilitators

Sydney Lai
ICO Advisor at uTrust

Sydney Lai is a digital marketer with an award-winning background in sales and business development. She has worked in banking, at accelerators, venture funds, SaaS, cryptocurrency, virtual reality, and space industries. Sydney grows products and startups users want.